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The Bewitchment of False Religion
Germany does not hide the truth in order to make Germany great again.
It tells the truth. It forces memory to sit in the room. It understands that lies do not heal nations, they poison them.
But here we are.
A people chanting greatness, as though greatness can be built on selective amnesia, as though a nation can be made noble by romanticizing its own cruelty, as though history is a prop, a slogan, a cap, a performance.
No.
What Greatness Is Not
The Klan was not greatness. Racism was not greatness. Terror was not greatness. Humiliation was not greatness.
This was an organization that lynched men, that terrorized families, that turned cruelty into ritual.
There are stories, too many to count, of women brutalized, of unborn children lost, of entire communities forced to live under the shadow of fear.
This is not distant history. This is not abstract.
This is what racial hatred looks like when it is given permission.
And no slogan, no nostalgia, no political theater, can cleanse that.
The Echo in the Slogan
So when I hear, “Make America Great Again,” I do not hear innocence.
I hear an echo. An old echo. An echo with blood in it. An echo with fire in it. An echo with hatred in it.
And I want to ask,
especially you, yes, you, the one wearing the hat,
and especially you, the Black man wearing the hat,
who has bewitched you?
The Theology of Excuse
Who persuaded you that the man breathing fresh life into racial grievance was sent by God to deliver you?
Who taught you that cynicism is wisdom? Who taught you that self-deception is discernment? Who taught you to call bondage strategy, and humiliation prophecy?
Ah yes. King Cyrus.
That tired theology. That convenient refuge for moral compromise. “God can use anybody.”
Really?
A Question They Avoid
Then why can God not use me to call you to repentance?
Why does God only seem to use the powerful, the shameless, the cruel, the celebrated?
Why not use a voice that tells you plainly, this is wrong, this is ugly, this is not Christ?
Or is the problem that I am not wicked enough? Not theatrical enough? Not useful enough to your illusions?
The Cost of Racism
Tell me,
why would God want to use racism?
Has racism not done enough? Has it not broken enough bodies, distorted enough minds, deformed enough churches, and baptized enough lies?
Trump is a racist.
And the desperate effort to explain that away is itself a moral sickness.
False Christianity
Not because naming racism is hatred. Not because truth is bitterness. Not because clarity is rebellion.
But because false Christianity has always specialized in excuses.
It can explain away cruelty. Explain away greed. Explain away arrogance. Explain away degradation.
Explain away everything except repentance.
That is what makes it false.
Confidence Is Not Righteousness
False religion and true religion may both speak of righteousness. Both may speak of God. Both may speak of the coming kingdom. Both may be full of confidence.
But confidence proves nothing.
Because if Christ comes first to judge false religion, and He will,
then many who speak most loudly in His name should tremble.
There will be much weeping. Much shock. Much outrage.
From people who thought performance was holiness, who thought slogans were faith, who thought tribal loyalty was righteousness.
A Clear Line
Let us be plain.
Any religion that tolerates racism, excuses racism, minimizes racism, or turns racism into a tool of convenience,
is against Christ.
Against Christlikeness. Against love. Against truth. Against the image of God in man.
That is anti-Christian.
Full stop.
The Final Question
Call it semantics if you like. Dress it up however you want.
It is still false.
And anyone who knowingly supports what is unchristlike, what is anti-Christian, what corrodes human dignity,
should at least have the honesty to stop hiding behind the name Christian.
So I ask again:
Why can God not use me to call you to reconsider your ways?
Why must your theology always bend toward power? Why must your discernment always flatter your prejudice? Why must your religion always make peace with what Christ came to destroy?
Think about that for a moment.
Because the real deception is not merely that a racist may rise to power.
The real deception is that so many who claim to follow Christ have trained themselves to call darkness useful, hatred strategic, and wickedness divine.
That is not wisdom.
That is bewitchment.
I rest my case
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PostScript: Stolpersteine |Stumbling Stones
Created by German artist Gunter Demnig, each stone is engraved with a name, date of birth, and fate, quietly forcing passersby to “stumble” not physically, but in memory.
They mark where ordinary lives were interrupted, deported, and often destroyed under Nazi persecution.
Unlike grand monuments, Stolpersteine bring remembrance into everyday life.
You do not visit them, you encounter them, unexpectedly, on your way to work, to school, to market.
In that moment, history is no longer distant or abstract, it is underfoot, personal, and unavoidable, a permanent reminder that atrocities begin not with spectacle, but with the slow normalization of injustice.
- Purpose: To restore the names of Holocaust victims and others persecuted by the Nazi regime—including Sinti/Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and disabled victims—directly into the streets.
- Scope: Over 116,000 stones are laid in more than 30 European countries, making it the world's largest decentralized memorial.
- Origin: The first stone was laid in 1992 in Cologne, and the project has since expanded across Germany and Europe.
- Design:
- Each stone is a 10cm x 10cm concrete cube topped with a brass plate.
- Inscriptions: They typically begin with "Hier wohnte" ("Here lived") followed by the person's name, birth year, and their fate (deportation, murder, or exile).
- These concrete cubes topped with brass are designed to make passersby "stumble" over them mentally and visually, rather than literally, to prompt reflection.
- Impact: The stones turn urban spaces into a living memorial, encouraging community involvement by researching victims and engaging with their families.
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